Business Plan Contest at SOI Asia 2010 - 2011
- Building the future from Asia -
- For All Innovators -
Paper submittion due : Nov 23 21:00 JST[UTC+9]
Final presentation contest : Dec 21 11:10 JST [UTC+9]
"Technology entrepreneurship gives us capabilities to prove whether our
technology is accepted and can benefit to people, and may derive our
economic incentives"
- Statement from
2008 Spring SOI Asia meeting in Keio, Japan

1. Purpose

SOI Asia is happy to host a business plan contest on coming December 21st, 2010, to cultivate the environment for the potential entrepreneurs in the region and to prepare and efficient fund matching opportunity with research asset originated from universities. This contest is hosted by SOI Asia Business Platform LLP that engages in entrepreneur assistance, and supported by Keio University Incubation Center. We wish to promote the entrepreneur development by the students, faculty members, researchers and graduates from the SOI Asia partner institutions through this contest.

2. Theme for the Business Plan Contest at SOI Asia 2010 - 2011

There are no restriction for the topic of your business ideas as long as they are based on your research outcomes.

3. Submission Procedure

Please download this format [ppt| pdf] and fill in your ideas to be submitted from the following file uploader
by November 23rd, 2010, 21:00 JST
You can also use your own format, but we strongly recommend that you use the provided format [pptx | pdf]. You can find an example of a business plan from the Entrepreneurship and Business Lecture series 4th lecture material(pdf)
    File Uploader
    Title :
    ex) Your Name (Organization)

    File :
    English File Name



4. Evaluation Process

    Evaluation is done based on this sheet: Guide for Business Plan Contest at SOI Asia 2010-2011

    We will invite prominent specialists as judges from many fields: e.g. IT technology, Management, Intellectual Property, Financial Sector, Accountant and University faculty members. The details of the judges and advisors will be announced on this web shortly.


5. Evaluation Process

  • 1st round: Judgements based on the submitted documents
    Submission Due: November 23rd, 21:00 JST
    The result will be announced on this web by mid December 2010.
  • 2nd round: Judgements based on the presentation
    The qualified submitters who won the 1st round will be asked to give a 10 minutes presenattion on
    December 21st, 2010 11:10 - 12:40JST.

6. Prize

The prize of this contest is a latest personal mobile computer, which will be a helpful tool for you to present your business plans to find investors and business partners as an entrepreneur. You will also receive enlightening advice to your business plan.

7. Lanugage

The documents and presentations should be in English.

8. Judges (TBD)



9. Useful Information